Now, KTRK reports, the light rail line might not be built until 2025 at the soonest.

"The Metro board has not scrapped plans for the University Line,” Metro officials told KTRK-TV in a statement. “While work has slowed down Metro has not pulled this project out of its rail expansion program. The transit agency is being fiscally responsible, and as we have stated in the past, Metro will proceed with rail expansion as funds become available.”

Some residents told the TV station they feel betrayed by Metro, and former Councilwoman Sue Lovell showed the creaky, pothole-riven roads that haven’t been repaired in anticipation of a light-rail line. Metro has also fallen short on promises made at the time of a 2003 bond referendum, when agency leaders sold voters on expanded bus service and a light-rail expansion plan with 21.5 miles of track to be complete by the end of 2012. Neither promise has been kept.